spheroplast

[ sfeer-uh-plast, sfer- ]

nounBacteriology.
  1. a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.

Origin of spheroplast

1
First recorded in 1915–20; sphero- + -plast

Words Nearby spheroplast

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